Tobin's Quotes

#1. Tobin's just a guy - like a ton of guys. Even as I run those words through my head, trying to convince myself, I know it's a lie. Tobin will never be just a guy. Not to me. And he shouldn't be just a guy to anyone who meets him or to anyone else that's lucky enough to love him.

Jolene Perry

#2. Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#3. Even with my non-believing teammates, there is a great amount of unity and I truly believe that's God working. It's really cool in team sports when you're united around a belief or something you want to accomplish.

Tobin Heath

#4. Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.

Tobin Hart

#5. It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.

Betsy Tobin

#6. Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#7. Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Tobin Bell

#8. Monsieur, please stay back. You are old and frail, and I would not have you hurt in this clash.

Paul Tobin

#9. When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

Tobin Hart

#10. The only way to engage god is to meet one of the three in time. We meet the Father as Creator, the Son as Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit as the dispenser of God's grace.

Tobin Wilson

#11. I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

James Tobin

#12. Tobin Hart calls play "the holy work of children" that helps them "find and define themselves."[2]

Tobin Hart

#13. One of my favorite things about soccer is how the art and the passion of the game somehow unites people and nations and classes and races. That's something that comes out of the game and how it's displayed and why people enjoy watching it and supporting it.

Tobin Heath

#14. One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.

Tobin Bell

#15. It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#16. Like anyone who has a relationship with Jesus knows, the coolest thing about it is that it's infinite how much you can learn and begin to understand. It's something that grabbed me.

Tobin Heath

#17. Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.

Tobin Bell

#18. I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#19. I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#20. The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#21. Do you have any matches?"
"What for?" The suspicion is back in his voice. That's the Tobin I know and lo-
Well, that's the Tobin I know, anyway.

Josin L. McQuein

#22. I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#23. All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#24. It is our tendency to look at people as opposed to looking into them.

Tobin Wilson

#25. Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

Tobin Bell

#26. Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.

Tobin Heath

#27. We sometimes have a tendency to bring God to our level, rather than allowing God to enlighten us by bringing us to God's level.

Tobin Wilson

#28. May the light of God's love lead us always through the valleys.

Amy E. Tobin

#29. Every life has a purpose. The longest life has many stories to tell of the opportunities to witness God's hand. The shortest life holds the eternal treasure of impacting lives as a testimony of God's creation because of a precious heartbeat.

Amy E. Tobin

#30. To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.

Tobin Wilson

#31. I'm always amazed ... I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like 'Oh here we go, Dad,' because they had been looking. They were like, 'You're the guy, aren't you?' And I said, 'Well, maybe.' They said, 'He is, he's the guy on 'Charmed!'

Tobin Bell

#32. One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#33. Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#34. An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

Tobin Bell

#35. JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!"
"Um," I said.
"We kissed," the Duke said.
"That's kinda gay," Keun said.
"I AM A GIRL."
"Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said.

John Green

#36. She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

John M. Tobin Jr.

#37. I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.

Andy Tobin

#38. American friends of Israel as well as those who understand the grave threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests and security need to face the fact that this president has abandoned them.

Jonathan S. Tobin

#39. At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country's leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.

Jonathan S. Tobin

#40. Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#41. We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#42. I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#43. Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.

Tobin Heath

#44. I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.

Tobin Bell

#45. After the shadows comes light.

Tobin Wilson

#46. Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#47. Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

James Tobin

#48. After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

James Tobin

#49. Growing and opening the inner life in order for us to more fully take in the world is an essential part of coming to our senses.

Tobin Hart

#50. In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies ... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

Tobin Bell

#51. Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

Tobin Heath

#52. The First Testament gives the baseline meaning to the gospel in the promise of God that will not be thwarted by anyone or anything. The New Testament gives us the fulfillment in the form of a person. These testaments are meant to be read in parallel, allowing each testament to illuminate the other.

Tobin Wilson

#53. My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

Tobin Heath

#54. I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

Tobin Bell

#55. For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.

Becca Tobin

#56. Tobin turned to Angie. "I'm such an idiot. Why didn't you remind me?"
She smiled drowsily. "That you're an idiot? Okay: you're an idiot."
"Oh that's great, thanks," he said. She giggled.

Lauren Myracle

#57. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

James Tobin

#58. No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life.

Cormac McCarthy

#59. I won't be mad, he'd told Tobin, but he was mad. Really mad. Not mad enough to kill a kid, of course not (probably of course not), but he wasn't going to let the little Judas-goat out of his sight, either.

Stephen King

#60. Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

Paul Tobin

#61. History proves that the winning forces are those who put survival first and killing second

Paul Tobin

#62. I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#63. The crimson thread of God's love that weaves its way throughout the story of His mercy in our life, stands out against the backdrop of the darkness which invades any valley.

Amy E. Tobin

#64. By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.

Jonathan S. Tobin

#65. Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth.

Lynn Flewelling

#66. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#67. There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

Tobin Bell

#68. We don't merely want to see beauty: we want to become part of it.

Tobin Hart

#69. The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it - and if we cannot, they it is absurd and impossible and therefore nonexistent.

Tobin Wilson

#70. I, alone, can decide what my relationship with Christ becomes.

Amy E. Tobin

#71. At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

James Tobin

#72. I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

James Tobin

#73. I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#74. 'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner ... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.

Tobin Bell

#75. May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon.

Amy E. Tobin

#76. There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.

Tobin Bell

#77. I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.

Tobin Wilson

#78. It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#79. Sometimes you don't need to ask why a kiss should be. you ask, why not?

Paul Tobin

#80. The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

Tobin T. Buhk

#81. I'm extremely blessed with my teammates. They're such an encouragement in my life. I have people praying for me and I'm praying for them as well.

Tobin Heath

#82. I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#83. As William Ferris is fond of saying, "in Africa when an older person dies, a library burns.

Jacqueline L. Tobin

#84. The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

L. Tobin

#85. From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

James Tobin

#86. The mirror of humanity always reflects the need for a Savior.

Amy E. Tobin

#87. Life is about trusting, loving, growing and healing even in the hurts which can occur.

Amy E. Tobin

#88. Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

Tobin Bell

#89. I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.

Tobin Bell

#90. 'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

Tobin Bell

#91. You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men ... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.

Tobin Bell

#92. It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Tobin Bell

#93. If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Tobin Bell

#94. The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

John M. Tobin Jr.

#95. All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Tobin Bell

#96. The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

James Tobin

#97. Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

Paul Tobin

#98. Your faithfulness and mercies forever abide,we trust in You Jehovah - Ahavah, The Lord is love.

Amy E. Tobin

#99. Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something.
Tobin and Angie ... their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still came as a
glorious, blush-worthy surprise.

Maureen Johnson

#100. 'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'

Tobin Bell